Donovan, T. M., and M. Alldredge.  2007.  Exercises in Estimating and Monitoring Abundance.

Chapter 12 - Farnesworth et al. Point Count Removal Model

Maximum likelihood procedures are the workhorse for most of the analyses occupancy modeling. This exercise contains worksheets on the multinomial distribution and multinomial maximum likelihood procedures. You MUST complete this exercise before launching into other exercises!

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Links of Interest:

• Farnsworth, G. L., K. H. Pollack, J. D. Nichols, T. R. Simons, J. E. Hines, and J. R. Sauer.  2002.  A removal model for estimating detection probabilities from point count surveys.  Auk 119:414-425.